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This question is worded poorly, but the answer is this:

1. Physical Addiction is when a drug user suffers physical effects when deprived of the drug. This is recognized as withdrawal. An example would be when a person who has been taking opiates daily and then ceases their intake, they will experience tremors, nausea, runny nose, watering eyes, decreased appetite, diarrhea, increased urination, hyper-sensitivity to pain, weak muscular function and hot/cold flashes.

2. Psychological Addiction boils down to metal effects of ceasing drug use. A drug user does not have to be a regular user or someone who goes through physical withdrawal to experience psychological effects when deprived of a drug. The feelings associated with this addiction can range from person to person. Some common effects are intense cravings for a particular drug, hyperactivity, laziness, mild to severe depression, anxiety, fatigue, foggy thinking and constant changing of mood (feeling happy one minute, then extremely sad the next).

All this being said, I've been addicted to oxycodone for 2 years and have experienced all these effects of addiction. They are awful, but my addiction (and many other peoples) continues to cause me to rationalize and continue my drug use, mostly because I continue to use oxycodone to avoid these withdrawal effects instead of detoxing and quitting. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

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